Topic: Marriage

Question

Brother Branham, how am I supposed to show my wife that I really care for her and yet play…or stay with the Word (That’s)—stay—stay with the Word, but still having a question like this said: “Why don’t you practice what you preach or believe?”

Answer

Well then, if the wife, if the wife is saying this to you when she’s…has a right to say it, you better get right. See, see? Then if she—if she is saying it just to be evil, remember, the Bible said, “It was better that a millstone was hanged at your neck and drowned in the depths of the sea than eve...

Question

We—we were married twenty-one years ago by the justice of the peace. Was—was it wrong?

Answer

Yes, it was wrong for you to do that. Marriage belongs in the house of God. But being that you are married, here’s when you are really married: you’re married when you vow one to the other, when you promise one another that you’re…that you’ll take one another. The justice of peace could give you lic...

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I have two daughters married to man in the d-e-a-v-…and they believe this Message. They…denominations, (That’s right.), and they believe this Message and have taken a stand for It, and have received…What should they do? They have received opposition. What shall we do?

Answer

Hold your stand! Absolutely. Show your colors. That’s it; don’t give into them. No, sir! I don’t say, don’t go among them, fellowship, or something like that, as long as you can fellowship; but when they come to changing the diet, you know, a dove can’t eat with a buzzard.

Question

Very urgent. Brother Branham, knowing that time is ending and eternity setting in, what would be your advice for a couple planning marriage?

Answer

Go right ahead and get married. See? Go right on just like if you was going to live for another hundred years here on earth. Just go right on; keep your heart set on Christ, not your hearts on these things of the world, but on Christ. See? Go right on; get married, children. God bless you in your we...

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Should a saved wife refuse herself to her husband if he is a sinner?

Answer

No, sir! No, sir! That’s your husband. You’ll drive him farther away from God than ever by doing that. See? That’s right, Brother, Sister. You married him; he’s yours, and you’re his.

Question

Brother Branham, what is the meaning of a annulment? Are people free to marry or is this just another word for divorce? I would like some information on this.

Answer

Sure they’re married. As long as they take that vow, they’re married. Just like a boy, if a boy promises a girl to marry her under good faith, he’s obligated to that girl. He’s just as good as married her. The only thing the law does, is give you a—a bill of rights to live together to keep from bein...

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Brother Branham, would the Lord permit you to instruct us on the marriage and divorce question at this time? Question: Can a man marry a woman and be divorced by her and then marry another? If both of them marry another, are they both committing adultery? You mentioned it would tie into serpent’s seed. How so?

Answer

Now, here—here is one of the most treacherous questions that we have in these bunches, and it’s the most questioned in the—in the—in the world today. Now, hear me, and I have a reason for this. If I really brought to this church and on this tape this morning, the correct thing about marriage and div...

Question

Now, Brother Branham, is there any Scripture permitting marriage after divorce? This is very important.

Answer

It says, “Important.” Well, that’s the reason…It wasn’t pertaining to this. As far as I can see, my brother, or sister, whoever it may be, there isn’t, unless your companion is dead. Because, the Bible said, “We’re bound to them as long as they live.” See? So, as—as far as being “any Scripture?” Th...

Question

Now. First Corinthians, 7th chapter, 15th verse. Now the question they asked: Brother Branham, does this mean a sister or a brother is free to remarry? No.

Answer

See, you don’t get his question there and what he’s saying. They’re not free. See, that would make a contradiction in the Scripture, and the Scriptures doesn’t contradict themselves at all. See? Now, let’s…You see, like you can make the Scripture (just by reading one verse) say anything you want it...

Question

Brother Branham, I was married to a woman that had been married before. We divorced, and she has been married twice since. The Bible states that if we desire to marry—if we desire to marry, to turn to…first wife. Now, could I turn to her who has been married before or could I be free?

Answer

Well now, my brother, here’s the only way that you could do it. Now, this is a great subject, and someday I—I want to if—if the church ever gets organized and straightened up into the place where it should be or…I—I say this with reverence, I…There’s two factions of this marriage and divorce in the...

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Matt-…(Let’s see.) Brother Bill, what is the difference between fornications and adultery, Matthew 19:9?

Answer

Jesus said in Matthew 19:9, “Whosoever putteth away his wife and marries another, except it be for the cause of fornications, commits adultery.” The difference between fornications and adultery, the word could be applied either way. But to make it clear what he was talking of there, that—a woman tha...

Question

Should a young man blow the horn for a girl to come out to him?

Answer

I knowed better than to blow the horn. I know her mother and dad would both be out on me. And I think that’s right. Well that’s cheap for you boys to go up and blow the horn for the girl to come out. If you don’t think enough of her to go in and talk to her, and bring her out, and talk to her mother...

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What did Brother Branham think about young people marrying young?

Answer

And so I remember one day we were getting mar…When they were young, when I was just a little bitty fellow…Daddy was eighteen years old; mama was fifteen when I was born, just children. And we was children with them, growed up with them. I think that’s a good thing. I do. My little girl, when she get...